{"id":55529,"date":"2018-01-03T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55529"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:27:56","slug":"who-can-call-themselves-metis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55529","title":{"rendered":"Who Can Call Themselves M\u00e9tis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/who-can-call-themselves-metis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Who Can Call Themselves M\u00e9tis?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Walrus<\/a><br \/>\n2017-12-29<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/native-studies\/about-us\/contact-us-people\/faculty\/chris-andersen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chris Andersen<\/strong><\/a>, Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/who-can-call-themselves-metis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/walrus-assets\/img\/20171229104427\/WEB_Andersen_Metis_Art.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>iStock \/ selimaksan<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>With the latest census surge in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e9tis<\/a> population, it\u2019s time to start talking about how we define the term<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The M\u00e9tis are an Indigenous people that originated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century on the northern plains of what is now <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Manitoba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southern Manitoba<\/a>. Centred historically in and around Red River (now <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winnipeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winnipeg<\/a>) and intimately tied to the buffalo-hunting economy, the M\u00e9tis became a powerful force by the middle of the nineteenth century, pushing back against the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u2019s<\/a> claims to economic monopoly and later leading two armed resistances against the Canadian state. Despite this powerful historic presence and the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_Act,_1982\">1982 Constitution Act<\/a> enumerated the M\u00e9tis, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Nations<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inuit<\/a>, as one of three Aboriginal peoples in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a>, the term has, in recent years, largely fallen into racialized disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>Today, many people understand \u201cM\u00e9tis\u201d not as an Indigenous nation but as denoting people with a mixture of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_of_Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Government of Canada<\/a> has used the term in this manner in multiple policy contexts. Inconsistent usage of M\u00e9tis has produced confusing and even contradictory results in the heart of some of Canada\u2019s most powerful institutions, including the census. This has exacerbated an already-confusing state of affairs in the minds of the general public and many policy actors about who the M\u00e9tis people are and the kinds of relationships with government to which we aspire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/who-can-call-themselves-metis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest census surge in the M\u00e9tis population, it\u2019s time to start talking about how we define the term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,19,33,8,3015],"tags":[5277,6544],"class_list":["post-55529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-canada","category-census","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-chris-andersen","tag-the-walrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55531,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55529\/revisions\/55531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}